Wednesday, November 30, 2016

How to prevent iCloud calendar spam

Here’s what you should do to prevent iCloud calendar spam.

Option #1: If you don’t use iCloud for your calendar, open the
Settings app on your iPhone and System Preferences on your Mac. Head
over to iCloud settings and disable calendars to stop iCloud syncing and
event invitations.

Option #2: If you want to quickly get rid of the spam, just
decline the calendar invite. The good thing is that the event will just
disappear from your calendar. If it’s still there, make sure you
disabled “Show Declined Events” in your calendar app settings. The bad
thing is that the spammer will receive a notification, proving that you
viewed the notification, you use your calendar and your iCloud email
address is valid.

Option #3: Create a new iCloud calendar, move your spam events to
this new calendar and delete the calendar. Make sure you press “Delete
and Don’t Notify” when you get a prompt. This way, the spammer won’t
know that you saw the notification and that this iCloud email address is
valid.
Option #4: Go to iCloud.com
on your laptop and open the Calendar web app. Click on the gear icon and
open Preferences. In the Advanced tab, you can choose to receive
calendar invites as emails. The good thing is that your email client
could catch the spam before it shows up in your inbox. And emails are
less intrusive than calendar alerts anyway. The bad thing is that you
won’t receive any push notification for new calendar events, even
genuine ones.